Abstract: Training data required for further training an AI pre-trained model to be used to identify aircraft can be effectively generated. A training data generation method includes: obtaining two data items among an appearance data item on an aircraft in an image in which a specific route has been imaged, a signal data item on radio waves emitted from the aircraft on the route, and a noise data item indicating noise from the aircraft on the route; identifying an attribute of the aircraft on the route by inputting one of the obtained two data items into a first identification model for identifying the attribute of the aircraft; and generating training data used for training a second identification model for identifying the attribute of the aircraft, by associating the other of the obtained two data items with the attribute of the aircraft on the route identified in the identification step.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus that controls the driving operation of a vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation of the vehicle and achieves autonomous driving is provided. The autonomous driving control apparatus is provided with: a driving operation decision portion that determines a content of the driving operation of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation of the vehicle; a driving operation control portion that controls the driving operation of the vehicle according to the decided content of the driving operation; and a driving information output portion that drives a driving portion provided on a seat of the vehicle to output the decided content of the driving operation as driving information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a drift layer; a base layer and a carrier storage layer over the drift layer; a collector layer on the drift layer opposite to the base layer; multiple trenches penetrating the base layer and the carrier storage layer and reaching the drift layer; a gate electrode on an insulation film in each trench; and an emitter region in a surface portion of the base layer contacting each trench. A thickness of at least a portion of a part of the gate insulation film on a sidewall of each trench on a collector layer side from a peak position, at which the impurity concentration of the carrier storage layer is highest, is thicker than a thickness of another part of the gate insulation film on the sidewall of an opening portion side of the trench from the peak position.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a drift layer; a base layer and a carrier storage layer over the drift layer; a collector layer on the drift layer opposite to the base layer; multiple trenches penetrating the base layer and the carrier storage layer and reaching the drift layer; a gate electrode on an insulation film in each trench; and an emitter region in a surface portion of the base layer contacting each trench. A thickness of at least a portion of a part of the gate insulation film on a sidewall of each trench on a collector layer side from a peak position, at which the impurity concentration of the carrier storage layer is highest, is thicker than a thickness of another part of the gate insulation film on the sidewall of an opening portion side of the trench from the peak position.

Abstract: Provided are a composite material that has lower volume resistivity in comparison with SiC, SiC—Si, and the like, which are materials for forming constituent elements of an EHC, has low temperature dependence of volume resistivity, and thus is able to form a constituent element of a high-performance EHC; an electrode film, an electrode terminal, and a honeycomb substrate that are constituent elements of an EHC formed with such composite material, and a method for producing them. The composite material contains MoSi2 and at least one of Si or SiC, and is a material for forming a constituent element of an electrically heated catalytic converter. An electrode film 2, an electrode terminal 3, and a substrate 1 are produced from such composite material.

Abstract: A resonant motor system having a resonant circuit that includes magnetic coils and of capacitors, for generating an electric power when the resonant lot is rotated by an engine, a regenerating portion for the resonant motor, a motor driving portion, a motor control portion, and a capacitor portion for storing therein the electric power generated by the resonant motor when the resonant motor is regenerated, the resonant rotor being driven by the electric power stored in the capacitor portion when the engine is assisted by the resonant motor.

Abstract: A self-charging type electromagnetic retarder including a main portion having a stator yoke, a plurality of magnetic coils forming multi-phase connections, and a steel rotor, a control device, an electromagnetic retarder having a high revolution region, capacitor portion for storing excess electric power, a diode, and a low revolution region. The magnetic coils of each phase are connected with capacitors to form a resonance circuit. Transistors for the high revolution region are connected in series to each of the multi-phase connections. Transistors for the low revolution region are connected in series to each of the multi-phase connections through the capacitor portion and the diode. At the high revolution region, excess electric power obtained from the electric power generating type electromagnetic retarder portion is stored in the capacitor portion, and at the low revolution region, the magnetic coils are excited by the electric power stored in the capacitor portion.

Abstract: A resonant motor system having a resonant circuit that includes magnetic coils and of capacitors, for generating an electric power when the resonant lot is rotated by an engine, a regenerating portion for the resonant motor, a motor driving portion, a motor control portion, and a capacitor portion for storing therein the electric power generated by the resonant motor when the resonant motor is regenerated, the resonant rotor being driven by the electric power stored in the capacitor portion when the engine is assisted by the resonant motor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic retarder includes a stator yoke, a plurality of magnetic coils, and a steel rotor; a control device; a driving device for a high revolution region having transistors; and a driving device for a low revolution region having a battery, a diode for inhibiting reverse current, and transistors. The magnetic coils of each phase are coupled with capacitors so as to form a resonance circuit. Each of the transistors for the high revolution region is coupled in series to each of the multi-phase connections. Each of the transistors for the low revolution region is connected in series to each of the multi-phase connections through the battery and the diode. At the high revolution region, the magnetic coils are excited by an electric power obtained from a braking energy, and at the low revolution region, the magnetic coils are excited by an electric power obtained from the battery.

Abstract: Provided are a composite material that has lower volume resistivity in comparison with SiC, SiC—Si, and the like, which are materials for forming constituent elements of an EHC, has low temperature dependence of volume resistivity, and thus is able to form a constituent element of a high-performance EHC; an electrode film, an electrode terminal, and a honeycomb substrate that are constituent elements of an EHC formed with such composite material, and a method for producing them. The composite material contains MoSi2 and at least one of Si or SiC, and is a material for forming a constituent element of an electrically heated catalytic converter. An electrode film 2, an electrode terminal 3, and a substrate 1 are produced from such composite material.

Abstract: A camera-integrated VTR system including a printer embodying a data processing device of the invention is provided, wherein various external data supplied from an external device and internal data generated or recorded internally are enabled to be exchanged selectively, easily and directly between respective components of the system without use of any additional component therebetween so as to be printed instantaneously.

Abstract: An ink-jet composition for a color filter excellent in storage stability, straightness and sustainability at the time of ejection from a head, wherein a cured layer thereof is excellent in heat resistance, adhesive property, and solvent resistance. The ink-jet ink composition for a color filter is a specific epoxy group-containing polymer (A), a specific epoxy group-containing compound (B) having two or more specific epoxy groups and a polycarboxlic acid derivative (C) in which specific carboxylic acid (c1) having alicyclic hydrocarbon is rendered latent by vinyl ether (c2), wherein the equivalence ratio of carboxyl groups rendered latent by the polycarbonoxylic acid derivative (C) to the total epoxy groups contained in the epoxy-group containing polymer (A) and the epoxy-group containing compound (B) is in the range from 0.7 to 1.1.

Abstract: A position detecting device for a vehicle and a seat position detecting device which are compact in structure and low in production cost are proposed, in which the absolute position from the reference point can be always detected. The position detecting device for a vehicle for detecting a position of a mobile object for the vehicle which is moved by a driving force of a rotating driving source includes a deceleration device having a two-stage hypo-cycloid mechanism decelerating the rotation amount of a rotation shaft rotated plural revolutions to one revolution or less by the driving source upon the mobile object being moved and a rotation sensor detecting a rotation output from the deceleration device as an absolute angle, wherein a position of the mobile object is detected based on the absolute angle detected by the rotation sensor.

Abstract: A position detecting device for a vehicle and a seat position detecting device which are compact in structure and low in production cost are proposed, in which the absolute position from the reference point can be always detected. The position detecting device for a vehicle for detecting a position of a mobile object for the vehicle which is moved by a driving force of a rotating driving source includes a deceleration device having a two-stage hypo-cycloid mechanism decelerating the rotation amount of a rotation shaft rotated plural revolutions to one revolution or less by the driving source upon the mobile object being moved and a rotation sensor detecting a rotation output from the deceleration device as an absolute angle, wherein a position of the mobile object is detected based on the absolute angle detected by the rotation sensor.

Abstract: Soldering flux compositions, solder pastes, and methods of soldering using the same are provided, that exhibit excellent wettability, give highly reliable solder joints, and have superior storage stability. The flux composition contains at least one compound having at least one blocked carboxyl group selected from the group including compound (X) obtained by reaction of a carboxylic acid compound and a vinyl ether compound, compound (Y) obtained by reaction of a carboxylic acid anhydride compound and a hydroxy vinyl ether compound, and compound (Z) obtained by reaction of an acid anhydride and a polyhydric alcohol, followed by addition polymerization with a divinyl ether compound, and the flux composition is non-curing.

Abstract: An ink-jet composition for a color filter excellent in storage stability, straightness and sustainability at the time of ejection from a head, wherein a cured layer thereof is excellent in heat resistance, adhesive property, and solvent resistance. The ink-jet ink composition for a color filter is a specific epoxy group-containing polymer (A), a specific epoxy group-containing compound (B) having two or more specific epoxy groups and a polycarboxlic acid derivative (C) in which specific carboxylic acid (cl) having alicyclic hydrocarbon is rendered latent by vinyl ether (c2), wherein the equivalence ratio of carboxyl groups rendered latent by the polycarbonoxylic acid derivative (C) to the total epoxy groups contained in the epoxy-group containing polymer (A) and the epoxy-group containing compound (B) is in the range from 0.7 to 1.1.

Abstract: An angle detection apparatus includes a rotation member including at least one north magnetic polar region and at least one south magnetic polar region alternately arranged around a rotation center, a magnetic field detecting portion having a magnetic plate and detecting elements detecting magnitudes of magnetic components in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic plate, and a computing unit determining a rotation angle of the rotation member, wherein the magnetic field detecting portion is disposed so that the magnetic plate is oriented perpendicular to a first direction, where magnetic field intensity is at its maximum, and the magnetic field detecting portion detects the magnitudes of the magnetic components in the first direction and a second direction corresponding to a direction that the north and south magnetic polar regions are circumferentially arranged.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decoy nucleic acid for the Synoviolin gene promoter. Also provided is the decoy nucleic acid can inhibit the promoter activity by binding to the transcription factor of the Synoviolin gene promoter. It also provides a decoy nucleic acid as expressed in (a) a decoy nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 11 or 12; and it also provides (b) a decoy nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 11 or 12 having deletion, substitution or addition of one or several nucleotides and has the function of inhibiting Synoviolin gene promoter activity.

Abstract: Inhibition of synoviolin function was found to activate the cancer-suppressing protein p53. Substances inhibiting the function of synoviolin are useful as cancer therapeutic agents. The inhibition of synoviolin function was also found to lead to the inhibition of p53 ubiquitination, increased activity of p53 phosphorylation proteins, and the like. Based on these findings, the present invention provides methods capable of efficiently screening for cancer therapeutic agents. Further, it was also found that regulation of the autoubiquitination of synoviolin protein suppresses the proliferation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial cells. Substances regulating the autoubiquitination of synoviolin protein are useful as anti-rheumatic agents. Moreover, the present invention provides methods of efficiently screening for anti-rheumatic agents.

Abstract: An angle detection apparatus includes a rotation member including at least one north magnetic polar region and at least one south magnetic polar region alternately arranged around a rotation center, a magnetic field detecting portion having a magnetic plate and detecting elements detecting magnitudes of magnetic components in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic plate, and a computing unit determining a rotation angle of the rotation member, wherein the magnetic field detecting portion is disposed so that the magnetic plate is oriented perpendicular to a first direction, where magnetic field intensity is at its maximum, and the magnetic field detecting portion detects the magnitudes of the magnetic components in the first direction and a second direction corresponding to a direction that the north and south magnetic polar regions are circumferentially arranged.